Integration Planning & Execution

• Orchestrate IT diligence, integration planning, and execution for the assigned workstream — working across the Infrastructure, Applications, Data & Analytics, and Security teams so each has clear scope and priorities, and their work converges into a single functional plan.
• Develop and maintain the functional integration roadmap, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Translate integration objectives into actionable work plans aligned with the overall integration strategy.
• Ensure completion of all functional integration activities within agreed timelines and scope.
• Coordinate with acquired company counterparts to facilitate successful integration execution.
• Partner with the IT Function team to determine the overall tech rationalization plan (retain, consolidate, migrate, or retire), with delivery of tech rationalization owned by each respective IT sub-function.
• Own IT Day-1 readiness across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, collaboration, end-user services, and service management to ensure a secure and seamless transition with minimal business disruption.

Synergy & Value Capture

• Identify, validate, and support delivery of integration synergies and value creation opportunities.
• Establish functional KPIs and success metrics aligned with deal objectives.
• Monitor progress against synergy targets and proactively address risks to realization.
• Recommend process improvements and standardization opportunities that contribute to business value.
• Support realization of infrastructure-related synergies through standardization, platform consolidation, operational efficiency improvements, and elimination of redundant technologies
• Support the planning and orchestration of acquired data into Graco’s enterprise platform certified enterprise definitions without disrupting financial, executive, or operational reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the primary point of contact between the IT function and the Integration Management Office.
• Manage IT interdependencies and collaborate with other workstream leaders to resolve issues and remove barriers.
• Participate in integration governance forums, provide timely progress updates, and pace the workstream against IMO milestones using the IMO’s planning and tracking tools, flagging timing or dependency risks early.
• Escalate significant risks, issues, or resource constraints to leadership when appropriate.
• Ensure application integration decisions align with enterprise application standards, platform strategy, and long-term architectural roadmaps.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Applications, and business stakeholders to ensure technology integration decisions balance business continuity, operational stability, cybersecurity, and long-term strategic objectives.
• Manage the integration risk register for key findings, owners, target dates, remediation, dependencies, and risk acceptance items.
• Partner with Finance, IT, HR, Sales, and Operations leads to align on shared data definitions, source-system dependencies, and reporting requirements, ensuring each function’s data needs are captured in one integrated plan rather than solved in silos.

Change Management & Communication

• Support stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and change management activities.
• Drive adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Build alignment among stakeholders and foster collaboration across organizations.
• Help maintain employee engagement and business continuity through the integration process.
• Support end-user training and adoption planning for new or migrated applications, coordinating with functional business owners to minimize disruption during cutover.

Governance & Risk Management

• Establish and maintain workstream reporting, status tracking, and issue logs.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans to minimize disruption and execution challenges.
• Ensure compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of integration methodologies and tools.
• Confirm with the owning IT teams that acquired entities meet enterprise standards for infrastructure operations, service management, monitoring, backup and recovery, endpoint management, and technology lifecycle before transition to steady-state operations.
• Ensure operational ownership, support processes, documentation, asset inventories, and service transition activities are completed before transitioning acquired environments to steady-state operations.
• Deliver Day-1 and Day-100 reporting commitments, apply enterprise governance and metric standards to acquired data, and transition the entity from deal-specific support to business-as-usual analytics ownership.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field.
• 7+ years of IT experience, including leading projects, programs, transformations, or business integrations.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to influence and drive alignment without direct authority; strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise application ecosystems (e.g., ERP such as Oracle Fusion or SAP; CRM such as Salesforce) and how they interrelate in a post-merger environment.
• Familiarity with system integration, data migration, and cutover planning, including integration platforms, master data management, and data mapping/reconciliation practices.
• Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure domains including cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, collaboration technologies, identity and access management, endpoint services, and IT service management processes.
• Experience with infrastructure integrations, carve-outs, technology transformations, or M&A initiatives; experience partnering with enterprise architecture, security, and infrastructure teams is a plus.
• Experience supporting due diligence, integration planning, remediation tracking, and executive risk reporting for M&A or divestitures.

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